Improvement in alphabet-blocks



ELIZABETH H. MULDAUR, 0F DOVER, DELAWARE.

IMPROVEMENT EN ALPHABET-BLOCKS.

Speoication forming part of Letters Patent No. EALQQ, dated July 8,1873; application led April 28, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH H. MUL- DAUR, of Dover, in the county ofKent and State` of Delaware, have invented a certain Improvement in ToyBlocks, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to vwhat are usually termed toy blocks, intendedfor little children, and so contrived as to both amuse and instructthem.V My improvement, consists in printing or otherwise formingpictures ot animals, birds, or other objects upon the blocks, and forming beneath such pictures a dovetailed groove for the reception of aslide, upon which the name oi the object represented above is printed.The slides having been separated from the blocks, the puzzle willconsist in putting the several slides under the appropriate pictures.

The drawings represent several blocks, both in plan views and sections,constructed in accordance with my invention.

The blocks A can be made of any suitable material, and will be put up inboxes in the usual manner. -Upon one side they contain the pictures ofobjects, underneath which a dovetailed groove, a, is cut in the block.The

slides B are dovetailed to t the grooves a, and printed upon the upperside of each is the name of an object represented by a picture upon oneof the blocks. Upon the reverse side of the blocks are printed theletters ofthe alphabet, either as shown in the drawings or as describedin my Letters Patent dated May 14,1872, where part of each letter isprinted upon a movable slide.

The letters of the alphabet may be omitted, and the reverse side oi theblocks left blank 5 or pictures with removable name-slides may be formedupon both sides ofthe blocks.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

An alphabet or toy block having a picture on one or more of its faces,and provided witlr a groove and a removable slide bearing the name ofthe object represented by said picture, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specili'cation in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ELIZABETH H. MULDAUR.

Witnesses THoMAs D. MATHER, HENRY E. KNAPP.

